Nevada Code § 164.900

Disbursements required to be made from income; reduction of amount charged against income
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1. A trustee shall make the following
disbursements from income to the extent that they are not disbursements to
which paragraph (b) or (c) of subsection 2 of NRS
164.800 applies:
(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2
or otherwise ordered by the court, one-half of the regular compensation of the
trustee and of any person providing investment advisory or custodial services
to the trustee;
(b) Except as otherwise ordered by the court,
one-half of all expenses for accountings, judicial proceedings, or other
matters that involve both the income and remainder interests;
(c) All the other ordinary expenses incurred in
connection with the administration, management or preservation of trust
property and the distribution of income, including interest, ordinary repairs,
regularly recurring taxes assessed against principal, and expenses of a
proceeding or other matter that concerns primarily the income interest; and
(d) All recurring premiums on insurance covering
the loss of a principal asset or the loss of income from or use of the asset.
2. If the amount charged to the income of
an irrevocable trust pursuant to paragraph (a) of subsection 1 exceeds 15
percent of the income of the trust in the accounting period, the trustee shall
exercise the authority in NRS 164.795 to
equitably reduce the amount charged against income for that accounting period
unless:
(a) The trustee, after taking into consideration
the terms of the trust instrument, reasonably concludes that the reduction is
not in the best interest of the beneficiaries of the trust;
(b) The reduction of the amount charged to income
would violate the express terms of the trust instrument other than a general
directive to comply with the Uniform Principal and Income Act (1997) or with a
general provision that contains language similar to that found in paragraph (a)
of subsection 1;
(c) The trustee is authorized under the terms of
the trust instrument to distribute trust principal to each income beneficiary;
or
(d) The trustee gives notice in compliance with NRS 164.725 of the intent not to make the
adjustment and no current income beneficiary objects.

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